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| Semester | spring semester 2008 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Hemingway, the Midwesterner and cosmopolitan expatriate, the man about war, women, trouts, and bullfights; the lonely hunter who helped revolutionizing the American short story. Hemingway, the brilliant stylist whose linguistic economy and profundity of unseen detail culminates in his dictum: The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. And Faulkner who rarely left the Deep South of Jefferson, Mississippi, the captial of his fictitious Yoknapatawpha county. Faulkner who declined President Kennedys invitation to the White House because as a farmer he had to harvest his crop at this time of year. This seminar seeks to examine the modes and contents of modernist fiction beyond the anecdotal and stereotypcial stance: the deceptively simple surfaces, ellipses, Leerstellen in Hemingways texts as well as the dark underside of Southern chivalry in Faulkners reconstruction of racial segregation, miscegenation, familial dysfunction, and lynching. Hemingways hero shows grace under pressure, Faulkners character will endure and prevail. The voracious and careful readers reward will be a range of extraordinary texts. |
| Bibliography | Ernest Hemingway: "In Our Time", "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms", "The Old Man and the Sea"; William Faulkner: "The Sound and The Fury", "Light in August", "As I Lay Dying", "Sanctuary/Requiem for a Nun", "Absalom, Absalom!". |
| Comments | Optional seminar paper |
| Admission requirements | Open to students who have successfully completed their second year courses and paper in literature/culture. Books should be read by the beginning of the seminar. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance, oral presentation |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |